Apriès

Apriès , Pharaon of, reign of -589 with -570.

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Reign

In -588, Apriès takes again the fight against Nabuchodonosor which had seized Jerusalem (third deportation of the Jews in Babylon). It seizes Gaza and supports Tyr and Sidon in their resistance to the Babylonians.

It cannot counter the catch of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Royaume of Juda by the Babylonian . Called at the assistance by Libyan king Adicran, it puts at the variation its Greek mercenaries and sends a task force exclusively made up of Egyptians. Those are massacred by the Greeks of Cyrène. The event causes a nationalist reaction and a military coup d'etat continuation to which it finishes its days in captivity.

Large manufacturer, in addition to Obélisque S set up with Know for the temple of Neith one also owes him a palate in the large northern enclosure of Memphis. The columns which level with the top of the site still carry its titulature. It also intervened with Héliopolis and one knows many representations of various sizes to him of which a colossal sphinx fished out with broad from Qait Bay to Alexandria.

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